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Countermeasures That Work Alcohol-Impaired Driving

Key Resources


Key Resources

For comprehensive overviews of alcohol-impaired driving, see the following.

  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Alcohol and Highway Safety 2006: A Review of the State of Knowledge (Voas & Lacey, 2011).
  • National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP): A Guide for Reducing Alcohol-Related Collisions (Goodwin et al., 2005).
  • “A Consensus Study Report” of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Getting to Zero Alcohol-impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem (Teutsch et al., 2018).

For more information about impaired-driving countermeasures, see:

  • Transportation Research Board’s Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation Committee’s e-Circular, Countermeasures to Address Impaired Driving Offenders: Toward an Integrated Model (TRB, 2013).
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: The Community Guide: Motor Vehicle Injury (CDC, 2021).
  • Approaches for Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Evidence-Based Legislation, Law Enforcement Strategies, Sanctions, and Alcohol-Control Policies (Fell, 2019a)
  • DWI History of Fatally Injured Pedestrians (Blomberg et al., 2019).

For alcohol-impaired-driving laws, see the following.

  • National Conference of State Legislatures: Drunken/Impaired Driving (NCSL, 2021).
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Digest of Impaired Driving and Selected Beverage Control Laws (NHTSA, 2017).

For approaches to dealing with persistent DWI offenders, see the following.

  • Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF): The Persistent DWI Offender: Policy & Practical Considerations (TIRF, 2018).